In Reaching Skyward you build a plant and reach for the sky. Manage water and energy.
Leafs produce carbon and produce energy but require water. Roots require energy and produce water. Stems provide structure for your plant but also requires water and energy.
if a node of your plant goes for to long without required resources it will die and fall off.
There is no goal (ran out of time :( ).
Controls ----------------------------- Mouse - Left click node to select and click buttons that appear to perform actions. - Right click cancel action. - Middle mouse button drag camera around. - Scroll wheel to zoom.
Backspace - goes back to main menu W, A, S,D - Move camera Q, E - Zoom in/out 1,2 - max zoom, min zoom
Software Used ----------------------------- Unity Visual Studio Paint.net Krita Audacity Garage Band
Very enjoyable growing look. Nice to look at for sure. It is a shame there's little substance to it - apart from lacking carbon to expand, I never noticed any strain on my plant...? Maybe I should just try to build only stems and observe my failings, but it definitely looks like an idea to explore further!
I like this idea. It reminds me of one those resource mining strategy flash games. It would be cool to be able to see some sort of water/energy flow within the tree so people can get a better idea of what does what. It would also be cool if you could eventually expand to manage multiple trees. It would be even cooler if you could evolve your trees to do one or another thing really well based on the surrounding environment or something. I guess I really liked this general idea. Your execution was OK for the time given and I'd love to see it expanded.
Because of this I might be a bit biased when I say it's a great idea :)
You're is definitely more polished. I added physics to mine, so branches can break if they're too heavy.
One thing I would suggest is make the energy and water rates always visible, I had to always have one node clicked to see how my resources are doing. Other than that I would just say the variables need a bit of tweaking to make it more challenging, but you probably would've done this if you had more time anyway. Mine doesn't have an end goal either, and also suffers from balance issues.
Too bad you couldn't finish it, I like the growing though.
3 double roots and every stem with 2 leafs seems to do the job